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Italian sandals favor the made-to-measure bench. Mastro Sandali Positano handcrafts leather sandals with leather soles in Positano, where the last measures your foot before cutting a single strap. Il Sandalo Caprese builds handmade Capri sandals made to measure. René Caovilla sets crystal serpent sandals among Brenta Riviera heeled sandals from Fiesso d'Artico, 1934. The sandal that grips the heel beats the one that merely photographs well.
Via Garibaldi, Bellagio
Gaia Bellagio has fitted out its Via Garibaldi shop with Italian-made shoes and accessories since 2008, from women's sandals and boots to men's loafers in Italian leather. It pairs artisan-made footwear with bags and belts, keeping the old resort rhythm of a midday close and an afternoon reopening.
Best for Italian-made shoes
Forte dei Marmi / Italy
Giovanni del Forte on via Roma in Forte dei Marmi sells clogs and sabots, as well as slippers and sandals.
Best for Clogs, sandals and slippers
Milan / Online
Milan's intellectual colorist — Consuelo Castiglioni's legacy of off-kilter prints and Fussbett sandals.
Best for Art-teacher-chic prints and Fussbetts.
Marni was founded in Milan in 1994 by Consuelo Castiglioni, a Swiss-Italian who began by rethinking her family's fur business and ended up inventing a sensibility: prints that argue with each other and win, colors a committee would veto, silhouettes cut generous when fashion said tight. "Art-teacher chic" became the shorthand — intellectual, off-kilter, collected by women who buy paintings.
The signatures compounded quietly: the Fussbett sandal that made ugly-comfortable a luxury category years early, chunky resin jewelry treated as seriously as gold, the Trunk bag's saddle geometry. Castiglioni stepped down in 2016; since 2016 Francesco Risso has pushed the house from eccentric to ecstatic — hand-painted runway sets, mohair in crayon colors, shows staged in New York lofts and Tokyo gyms with audiences seated inside the art.
Under OTB Group, Marni remains Milan's licensed eccentric: the house you wear when matching would be a failure of nerve.
Vico Equense / Italy
Angela Barba on Via Roma in Vico Equense makes leather sandals by hand in the Capri and Positano manner.
Best for Handmade leather sandals
Capri island
A.mano cuts and assembles leather sandals by hand in the Caprese tradition, letting customers choose straps, buckles and stones for a made-to-measure fit. Each pair is finished in genuine Italian leather while the buyer waits.
Best for Custom handmade leather sandals
Capri island
Azzurra makes the classic Caprese thong sandal by hand, offering custom straps and coloured stones assembled on the spot. Its leather styles follow the island's long tradition of made-to-measure footwear.
Best for Handmade Capri sandals
Capri town
Emanuela Caruso continues a Capri sandal-making lineage, cutting and assembling leather thong sandals by hand in the island's workshops. Customers pick straps and stones for pairs finished to measure while they browse.
Best for Handmade Capri leather sandals
Abruzzo, Italy
Women's leather footwear brand founded in Australia in 1993 by Barry Cheetham, drawing on his background in Brazilian-manufactured shoes and sandals. The Cheetham family sold the label to Perth-based footwear group PC Brands in 2024; design and sourcing are Australian-led, not Italian.
Best for Honest Italian leather footwear made in Abruzzo, on the Adriatic side.
Gino Ventori was founded in 1993 by Barry Cheetham, who brought experience in the footwear trade - including a focus on Brazilian-manufactured shoes - into a new brand aimed at women's leather footwear in Australia and New Zealand. In 2024, the Cheetham family sold Gino Ventori to PC Brands, a Perth-based family-owned footwear group, with Barry Cheetham retiring from the brand. Gino Ventori's own site and retail partners consistently identify it as an Australian-founded and Australian-run label rather than an Italian one.
Capri
Established in 1964, this Anacapri workshop hand-makes traditional Capri sandals to measure in genuine Italian leather. Pairs are built on the spot, with crystals added on request.
Best for Made-to-measure handmade Capri sandals
Via Giuseppe Orlandi 34-36, Anacapri, Capri
Run by Vincenzo and Luca, this Anacapri boutique hand-makes sandals and shoes, from thong and jewelled styles to bridal pairs, friulane and moccasins. Each is crafted in Italy.
Best for Handmade sandals and shoes, custom pairs
Porto Sant'Elpidio, Marche, Italy
Founded in the early 1970s in Porto Sant'Elpidio by Graziano Cuccù, who remains the brand's stylist, this Italian shoemaker built its name on plaited leather-strip sandals before a 1978 sales boom of 110,000 pairs and, in the 1980s, crystal-embellished 'jewel sandals' that led to its 1996 signature 'golden shoe.'
Best for Luxury shoes, sneakers
Loriblu was founded in the early 1970s in Porto Sant'Elpidio, in Italy's Marche region, by Graziano Cuccù, who has directed the brand's style and collections since its start and today runs the company with his wife, CEO Annarita Pilotti. The label's early identity was built on a distinctive plaited-leather-strip sandal, and its commercial breakthrough came in 1978, when the company sold 110,000 pairs of shoes. In the 1980s Loriblu developed what it calls the 'jewel sandal,' using rhinestones, crystals and Swarovski stones to bring a more ornamented, evening-wear character to its footwear, a direction that culminated in 1996 with a signature style the company calls the 'golden shoe.' Loriblu still manufactures at its Porto Sant'Elpidio headquarters, which includes a factory and showrooms in a building the company calls the Diamond Palace, continuing to produce men's and women's shoes under Cuccù's ongoing creative direction.
Positano / Italy
Mastro Sandali Positano is a family workshop of young artisans handcrafting leather sandals with leather soles, along with jewelry, stoles and linen home goods, from its Viale Pasitea factory and shops in Positano. Pieces are sold in-store and shipped worldwide through the online shop.
Best for Handcrafted leather sandals with leather soles, plus jewelry, stoles
Fiesso d'Artico / Veneto / Online
Brenta Riviera heeled sandals — Fiesso d'Artico 1934, jeweled Italian luxury footwear, Cleo serpent signature.
Best for Crystal serpent sandals.
René Caovilla's house began in 1934 in Fiesso d'Artico, on the Brenta Riviera — Venice's centuries-old shoemaking corridor — where Edoardo Caovilla founded the atelier his son René would turn into the world capital of the jeweled sandal. René apprenticed the family craft, refined it alongside couture houses (Valentino and Dior both borrowed his hands), and built the signature that needs no label: the Cleo, a serpent of crystals coiling up the ankle.
The house vocabulary is unapologetically ornamental — Swarovski constellations, satin, gold kid, heels slim as stemware — occasion shoes engineered with Venetian patience, hundreds of crystals set by hand per pair — 'jewel shoes,' as the house calls them, made in the Veneto start to finish. Red carpets and royal weddings supply the natural habitat.
Still family-guided, with production rooted in Fiesso d'Artico and flagships from Monte Carlo to Dubai, Caovilla holds the niche it invented: the shoe as jewelry outright, Brenta craft beneath the sparkle, the serpent still the house's calling card.
Positano / Italy
Safari Club has made leather sandals and loafers for women, men and children in Positano for more than fifty years, selling from its Via della Tartana workshop and shop. The collection also ships worldwide via Mail Boxes Etc. and can be ordered through the online store.
Best for Handmade leather sandals and loafers for the family
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